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Killers Shouldn't Inherit From Their Victims . . . Or Should They?, Carla Spivack
Killers Shouldn't Inherit From Their Victims . . . Or Should They?, Carla Spivack
Carla Spivack
The article offers a profound reassessment of so-called “Slayer Rules,” laws that, in all states, bar killers from inheriting from their victims. For the first time in the literature, this piece questions the underlying rationale for these rules by examining the context of family violence and mental illness in which these killing occur, and argues that, given that context, these rules are often neither legally nor morally justified. My argument is as follows: at first glance, the idea behind Slayer Rules seems reasonable, indeed, morally obvious: a killer should not be able to profit from his or her crime. This …
Sperms And Estates: An Unadulterated Funtionally Based Approach To Parent-Child Property Succession, Lee-Ford Tritt
Sperms And Estates: An Unadulterated Funtionally Based Approach To Parent-Child Property Succession, Lee-Ford Tritt
Lee-ford Tritt
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